Slimebeast said:
Yes yes, in my world, and in the battle between X360 and PS3 50% is an enormous increase (Wii is unstoppable, I don't pay much attention to it's crazy sales). Of course I don't think those 50% will be sustained over more than a couple of months, then perhaps go down to more like 20-30%, but that's still a lot in the battle. Now holidays screwed up the comparisons a bit, but january and so on will be interesting to see if Sony keeps selling pretty much exactly like the X360 WW. And as I foresee, if the X360 will take a 20% WW ead in march due to a price cut (with that bigger spike in the first month).
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I see where you are coming from and I agree to a point I guess. PS3 beating the 360 is very important at this point, because it looks ever more difficult to beat the Wii, and no one wants to be last. The only problem with percentages (and I am as guility as anyone, see my last post to CrazzyMan), is that the smaller the size compared to the growth, the harder it is to get a good idea of what is really happening. I also see you made a percentage error. The increase is actually 100%. Yes, that is most definitely great. But, 100% of 80,000s, is only 80,000 units, bringing the total to 160,000 (a little lower than that). The Wii only had to increase 40% to increase the same amount number of unit wise. If the Wii had increased 100%, it would have sold 400,000, which is still a ration of 2.37 to 1. But it's being outsold by more units. This is how people "cherry pick" data to make what they want to say look better. And I know you were not looking at Wii sales, but when I look at sales, I have to include all data. The mere fact that the PS3 is selling on par if not better than the 360 at this point in their lives is enough to say a 100% increase is not enough (it was on par with it even to that point). It needs to increase 200% for a few weeks after the price cut, and maintain that elevated sales for months, hopefully around a 35% or more increase after sales stabilize. 20% increase only grows it to 96,000 for that week without a price cut. It needs a 75% increase for that week without the pricecut, or 140,000 units, which puts it much farther ahead of the 360 than a small 100% price cut increase does.
But you are correct. And like I said, let us wait for better numbers toward the beginning of Feb, perhaps March, so that we can really know.
